If the drive is to be used as a media drive for video editing, then for the best speed performance, avoid using partitions. I have a article for you, if you want to read up on partitioning, but the reason for this article is to address the common confusions and questions when people use Disk Utility for the first time. For example, seeing a drive listed in the left hand column with 2 or more names, can be confusing.

Windows will present you with a formatting window where you can specify various formatting parameters. After you confirm your selection, it should take just a few moments for the formatting process to finish. Recover Data from a Formatted Hard Drive Realizing that you’ve forgot to back up a critically important file from a newly formatted hard drive feels horrible. Without a capable data recovery tool, there’s nothing you can do about it. That’s why countless people from around the world have turned to Disk Drill, selecting it as their data recovery tool of choice.

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February 1, 2010 Formatting a Hard Drive for the Mac By Ken Stone. You have just purchased a brand new hard drive for your Mac. It could be an internal drive but most likely it is an external hard drive that has Firewire 400, Firewire 800, USB 2 or eSATA ports on the back for connectivity to your Mac. Possible Solutions to Format Hard Drive on Mac 1. How to Format External Hard Drive/Disk on Mac using Disk Utility? If you are using an external hard drive, or even an SD Card or a USB stick, make sure that it is properly connected to your computer via the appropriate port.

Once done with this process, the remaining space will display as unallocated space. Now, create another New Simple Volume in the remaining unallocated space for the next partition. For example, on a 2TB drive, set the volume size to 1000000 (1 TB) and continue to the next step.

Close the Command Prompt window when you see a message saying “DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk.” Create an NTFS or FAT32 Partition You can now open the Disk Management window again. If you’ve left it open, you may have to click Action > Rescan Disks to update the data.

• With now open, locate the drive you want to format from the list at the top. • Important: Is the drive you want to format not listed, or does an Initialize Disk or Initialize and Convert Disk Wizard window appear? If so, it means you still need to partition the drive. See and then return here to continue.

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